:00:02. > :00:09.That is the latest news. More bulletins throughout the night. It
:00:09. > :00:14.is time now for Coldest Classroom on Earth.
:00:14. > :00:23.My name is Luke Dicker and I suffer from attention deficit
:00:23. > :00:28.hyperactivity disorder. This is the story of my journey from
:00:28. > :00:35.Springfield to the North Pole. How I came to mentor four other
:00:35. > :00:45.youngsters. I am so excited. overcome the challenge - the
:00:45. > :00:54.
:00:54. > :00:59.It is much 2010 and it is that my old school in Springfield. -- March.
:00:59. > :01:07.Are you all right? Not bad. I took on a special role. It has been
:01:07. > :01:12.quite a journey since I was 15. was like being on an alien planet.
:01:12. > :01:15.I did not understand people, their facial expressions, what they were
:01:15. > :01:25.saying. So everything was offensive and everything I said was offensive
:01:25. > :01:26.
:01:26. > :01:31.to everybody else. I realised there was something wrong with me. I have
:01:31. > :01:35.Asperger's syndrome, ADHD and to read syndrome. The autism, you find
:01:35. > :01:41.methods to cope with it. You do not sit in a corner and not talk to
:01:41. > :01:47.anyone. You get sociable and get on with it. The ADHD, that one I am
:01:47. > :01:52.working on. When Luke Dicker came here, he was a very lonely person.
:01:52. > :01:59.To think there was a time when he would not even leave his room. He
:01:59. > :02:05.could not even attend class. What he has been through his remarkable.
:02:05. > :02:09.He has a future. He is now working as a mentor. He is so passionate
:02:09. > :02:12.about the journey he has been through. If he can sell what he has
:02:12. > :02:22.done and encourage the others that followed him, they will have a
:02:22. > :02:26.positive future as well. A year on and by mentoring role has
:02:26. > :02:29.stepped up. Time for a different challenge. We has come to the
:02:29. > :02:37.University of Gloucestershire to see if we are fit enough and get a
:02:37. > :02:43.taste of the cold. Nice to see you. Not bad. With temperatures dropping
:02:43. > :02:51.to -17 and below, we are testing if we can tolerate the freezing cold.
:02:51. > :02:59.It is hard to breathe. Today, we begin selecting a team of four
:02:59. > :03:04.students. All with behavioural problems that will go to the North
:03:04. > :03:08.Pole. The inspiration for the expedition came from the head
:03:08. > :03:14.teacher. He is determined to prove it can be done. Quite a few people
:03:14. > :03:19.-- people said, you are taking on too much. Unfortunately, these
:03:19. > :03:22.young people to have special needs. What I want to challenge and sure
:03:22. > :03:27.the system is that it does not matter what label a child has got,
:03:27. > :03:31.it does not matter how affected or what those issues are, with the
:03:31. > :03:35.right people and the right place to win the right thing and saying the
:03:35. > :03:40.right thing, giving those young people the real core belief that
:03:40. > :03:47.they can achieve anything, with the right people and the right place,
:03:47. > :03:51.it can achieve anything. We will be led by a polar explorer Alan
:03:51. > :03:56.Chambers. He is a veteran of the first unsupported expedition to the
:03:56. > :04:02.North Pole. Dawning us will beat sports and business mentors. --
:04:02. > :04:06.joining us. We will take the children 78 degrees north, half way
:04:06. > :04:11.from the Arctic Circle to the North Pole. A tiny hamlet. It is at a
:04:11. > :04:17.remote place. There will have to accept the new environment and work
:04:17. > :04:21.with new people. A lot of trust and honesty that has to be shown by the
:04:21. > :04:29.older staff and the children. Just to be there in the wilderness will
:04:29. > :04:34.bring its own issues and we will see how we combat those hurdles.
:04:34. > :04:39.These kids are from a great school. They are in that school because
:04:39. > :04:43.they have their own personal challenges in life. This is about
:04:43. > :04:48.us conveying to them that they can feel safe and trust us. That is
:04:48. > :04:53.what it is about. That children can gain people's Trust in society and
:04:53. > :04:57.hopefully this exercise will catapult them forward in life.
:04:57. > :05:01.makes my blood boil when people stick a label on them and say, why
:05:01. > :05:06.are these keys -- keeps getting this? You have to look at what they
:05:06. > :05:11.have been through. Someone like Luke Dicker has had to take himself
:05:11. > :05:21.into a challenging environment and, to beware those kids were a few
:05:21. > :05:26.years ago, that is incredibly powerful. -- to be where those kids.
:05:26. > :05:35.Cut my hand on a pudding 10! will I be mentoring as I take on
:05:35. > :05:41.this to the challenge? -- this chilly challenge? I did not believe
:05:41. > :05:47.it at first and then a day later I thought, I am actually going to the
:05:47. > :05:52.Arctic. In 2006, my father died of a heart attack and I found that
:05:52. > :06:00.very hard. I have dyslexia. I have learning difficulties. I used to
:06:00. > :06:08.sit at the back of the classroom and not the work. I got expelled. I
:06:08. > :06:15.could not spell, but could not do anything. My behaviour was shocking.
:06:15. > :06:25.This compares -- this will be one of the biggest challenges in my
:06:25. > :06:33.
:06:33. > :06:40.life. It will make my views of the world changed. I rang up my mum and
:06:40. > :06:50.I was really happy. It will be a life experience. To cope with the
:06:50. > :06:55.
:06:55. > :06:58.cold and that. To learn how to listen and work as a team and that.
:06:58. > :07:06.Wow! I started crying. I did not think I was going. It was
:07:07. > :07:15.exhilarating to think I was going. I am worried about the physically
:07:15. > :07:19.and mentally how it affects me. I will just try my hardest to try to
:07:19. > :07:25.shine. We have chosen a really good group of kids. We have not taken
:07:25. > :07:32.the easiest jobs. They all have their stories. Talent is definitely
:07:32. > :07:35.a perfect choice. He is a smashing kid and has come far. And then
:07:35. > :07:39.Stephen has made tremendous progress in the last couple of
:07:39. > :07:42.years. When I first came, you could not have a conversation with him
:07:43. > :07:48.and now he's a very affectionate and very nice and giving it his
:07:48. > :07:50.best. If we can all make it, they can do anything. The sky is the
:07:50. > :07:56.limit. Now that preparations are over, it
:07:56. > :08:06.is time to see if we are up for the talent but first we have to get
:08:06. > :08:14.
:08:14. > :08:24.By the time we got there, we left at 5pm, we got the Arctic at 2am
:08:24. > :08:24.
:08:24. > :08:28.the following morning. So the kids got through that. Very challenging
:08:28. > :08:33.environment. OK, first day of my video diary.
:08:33. > :08:39.had three hours sleep and have been up for a stupid amount of hours. I
:08:39. > :08:49.am going to get to bed and I will catch up tomorrow.
:08:49. > :08:52.
:08:52. > :09:02.After a bit of camp, which perked up a little bit. -- after a bit of
:09:02. > :09:19.
:09:19. > :09:23.It is lunchtime now. It says, welcome to a restaurant. We have to
:09:23. > :09:27.learn how to work as a team and not squabble as much and give each
:09:27. > :09:33.other space. It is quite a claustrophobic environment. I am so
:09:33. > :09:38.hungry, it is not even funny. It does not look too bad. It does look
:09:38. > :09:43.bad but I think it will taste good. This trip is about being in an
:09:43. > :09:50.alien world, a very cold alien world, getting on with it and
:09:50. > :09:56.finding ways to do it. That is the most beautiful thing I have ever
:09:56. > :10:03.seen. How old is it? Very old. The oldest ice. Maybe 3,000, 4,000
:10:03. > :10:08.years old. I am in this situation where potentially life or death if
:10:08. > :10:11.you don't listen. To be honest, it depends on your safety. If you do
:10:11. > :10:21.not listen, you could get seriously injured. He has learned to say
:10:21. > :10:28.
:10:28. > :10:32.situation which is good. Situation. That is a polar bear. I have to say,
:10:32. > :10:42.Stephen has come out of his shell. So Keegan has been brilliant. He is
:10:42. > :10:45.
:10:45. > :10:50.having such a good time. -- Stephen. I am just going to go round and ask
:10:50. > :10:59.the pupils how they feel about themselves. How are you feeling?
:10:59. > :11:07.Quite tired. But quite excited. Great stuff. You? Everything has
:11:07. > :11:17.changed. You come into a new country, you do not know what to do.
:11:17. > :11:33.
:11:33. > :11:37.Thank you. Steve? You are basing Today we started the actual
:11:37. > :11:41.expedition. We are doing eight hours on skid do's and then four
:11:41. > :11:49.hours to go to the camp. I am looking forward to driving them. It
:11:49. > :11:56.will be amazing. It is really confusing. There is snow, we have
:11:56. > :12:02.these skin two's, bikes, it is confusing. It is like one big thing
:12:02. > :12:07.altogether. If you are all ready, come with me to the Snow Mobile.
:12:07. > :12:17.Today is probably one of the first days the children get to experience
:12:17. > :12:21.this. I am so excited. The essence of this is taking the children
:12:21. > :12:24.completely away from their normal environment. Not only in the
:12:24. > :12:29.wilderness of the high Arctic but looking out for each other, working
:12:29. > :12:39.as a team and making sure that we spend the next nine hours working
:12:39. > :12:41.
:12:41. > :12:45.together. Not only just that, enjoying the whole day. Four pupils
:12:45. > :12:49.from Springfield School, they have been in this climate for about a
:12:49. > :12:54.day and a half and this is where they realise what is out there in
:12:54. > :12:59.the world and what they can achieve. The toughest thing for them,
:12:59. > :13:06.tonight, ahead of this, we have about a five-hour trek up through
:13:06. > :13:16.the glazier, minus 20 or minus 30, we will be camping out tonight.
:13:16. > :13:22.
:13:22. > :13:26.That will be a real challenge for We are at the business end now. I
:13:26. > :13:31.think this will be where it will challenge everyone, including
:13:31. > :13:36.myself. We were up this morning at 6am. It is minus 20 at the moment.
:13:36. > :13:44.It will get Calder once we get to the other end. We have to prepare
:13:44. > :13:54.everything, all this leads. Or we have called hands and called feet.
:13:54. > :13:56.
:13:56. > :14:00.-- cold hands and cold feet. It is interesting to see how people have
:14:00. > :14:06.coped with it in different ways. There is a bit of adrenalin. I
:14:06. > :14:11.think it is the fear of the unknown. They will always be trouble and
:14:11. > :14:14.problems especially with kids with difficulties. But if you can
:14:14. > :14:18.overcome this genuine life-and- death situation, you can overcome
:14:18. > :14:21.those social nickels and learn not to be so self-conscious and easily
:14:21. > :14:31.offended and take it on the chain and get on with it and deal with
:14:31. > :14:47.
:14:47. > :14:56.life. # My fate is shaking but I've got to keep trying. Got to keep my
:14:56. > :15:02.head held high. There's always going to be another mountain. I'm
:15:02. > :15:09.always going to want to make it move. It's always going to be an
:15:09. > :15:19.uphill battle. Sometimes I'm going to have to lose. It's not about
:15:19. > :15:23.
:15:23. > :15:33.what's waiting on the other side. We walked about 6.5 km uphill
:15:33. > :15:43.
:15:43. > :15:51.dragging a heavy sled. Now it is really cold. But it has been good.
:15:51. > :16:01.My eyes are frozen as well as my beard. But it has been good. Really
:16:01. > :16:12.
:16:12. > :16:19.good. That's how cold it is. You can see the steam coming off my
:16:19. > :16:29.blogs. It is 9am at the moment. We would get all the sleds packed up,
:16:29. > :16:32.
:16:33. > :16:36.get back in the tense to keep warm and leave here at 10. Do you want
:16:36. > :16:46.to be part of the team Steve? Everyone doing a little bit, you
:16:46. > :16:51.
:16:51. > :16:58.will feel better for it mate. Come on. That's it. It must have been at
:16:58. > :17:08.least -400. It was so-called! and was going to be a piece of cake.
:17:08. > :17:11.
:17:11. > :17:15.One night camping, how hard can it be? Having trekked for miles,
:17:15. > :17:19.conquered a place here and spend the night at -50, time to go
:17:19. > :17:29.hundreds of feet underground to explore the incredible ice caves.
:17:29. > :17:35.
:17:35. > :17:45.Are you ready? Let go! We get to go into an ice cave and see what it's
:17:45. > :17:53.
:17:53. > :18:03.like. It will be good I think. are inside the glacial. Incredible!
:18:03. > :18:18.
:18:18. > :18:23.The reason they to the ice is Gray is because it is made out of snow.
:18:23. > :18:30.When snow deposits on the top, it starts to press the other snow down
:18:30. > :18:36.and the lower down into the lazier, the higher the pressure. The oxygen
:18:36. > :18:46.in the snow is being pressed together. When we see the grey in
:18:46. > :18:49.
:18:49. > :18:55.here, it is actually bubbles of air. These are about 5,000 years old.
:18:55. > :19:00.Look at this! This is amazing. Look at that! You wouldn't see that at
:19:00. > :19:10.home would you? That's amazing! Think how many years it's been
:19:10. > :19:42.
:19:42. > :19:48.here! Look at that! Its amazing man. A Euro? You sure? Fascinating? You
:19:48. > :19:52.never seen anything like it before have you? Know. We walked over the
:19:52. > :20:02.top last night with the sledges and now we are right underneath
:20:02. > :20:12.underground. Incredible. If you have done really well. That is
:20:12. > :20:15.
:20:15. > :20:25.brilliant. Amazing. It is our last day and I'm first up. Wake up. How
:20:25. > :20:29.
:20:29. > :20:39.are you today? Tirade. You looking forward to the dog's lead? Yeah.
:20:39. > :21:13.
:21:13. > :21:19.How do you stop them? Used a lot of -- this expedition has been a
:21:19. > :21:29.changing point for us all. Steve, tell us about your experience. What
:21:29. > :21:30.
:21:30. > :21:40.have you learned? To work as a team, listening. Have you found anything
:21:40. > :21:49.
:21:49. > :21:53.particularly easy or difficult? was all difficult. He was minus 35,
:21:53. > :22:00.he was quite an individual and didn't pull together as a team. In
:22:00. > :22:07.the last few days he has rarely shown his true colours. Of all the
:22:07. > :22:16.kids, if I had to pick one who has really grown and blossom, --
:22:16. > :22:26.blossomed, it would be him. A few months later, and the experience of
:22:26. > :22:42.
:22:42. > :22:48.the poll expedition has had a lasting impact. My confidence has
:22:48. > :22:52.grown because they did not have much before the trip. Before I went
:22:52. > :23:02.I was quite naughty and they did not bother with lessons. But now I
:23:02. > :23:04.
:23:04. > :23:10.have started to know that I'm worth it and that I should try. I think I
:23:10. > :23:19.have become a different person. I know that I can do these things
:23:19. > :23:24.which I never thought I could do. I have learned as I have carried on
:23:24. > :23:34.and moved my life. 1 I was in the Arctic, it may be notice that I
:23:34. > :23:35.
:23:35. > :23:40.have got to do my best and try and not give up. They said we should
:23:40. > :23:43.not take them. Well we have been there and done it. Why wouldn't you
:23:43. > :23:52.take them? They have got in self- confidence and a sense of
:23:52. > :24:00.achievement. It is a concerning time the society that we have to be
:24:00. > :24:03.so PC. Challenge the labels and remove the labels. The only way we
:24:03. > :24:11.can help these young people is to challenge them, to show them they
:24:11. > :24:18.can do the impossible and go beyond what we deem to be normal. Evenlode
:24:18. > :24:28.was anxious about going. In terms of self-esteem and positivity
:24:28. > :24:35.
:24:35. > :24:40.leading onto Independents, that is the greatest message we can give.
:24:40. > :24:50.Next challenge, we're going to go to the acquittal. I'm looking to
:24:50. > :24:50.